For the theater play “Der Goldene Topf” by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Katia Fouquet realized some wounderful mystical animations. In colaboration with Constanze Fischbeck, who was responsible for the stage design and art direction, she created an imagery of licking plants, crawling worms and copulating flowers. The play will be on show in the Theater an der Parkaue in Berlin, for tickets please see here. Next show will be after the summer in October.

If you are in Hamburg next Saturday, 09.July.2011 make sure to visit Gosia Machons exhibition “HOTEL” at Feinkunst Krüger. Spend a night in the atmosperic ink painting or at the beautifully drawn bar and you will be a new person the next morning. Here is what Feinkunst Krüger says about the works (unfortunenately in German only):

For the new issue of SPRING, Carolin Löbbert worked in a new medium: porcelain! The elegant material has been fascinating her for quite a while. Her drawings reflect the character of the traditional craftmanship playing with the original imagery, values and techniques, but adding a new dimension of style, content and funny details to it. A great and really smart collection! More images can be found below and in the new issue of SPRING (publishing date: 24th June)

Bongoût & Jakob Hinrichs joined forces in an exciting new project: MAZDA & VICE invited them to participate in the Mazda 2 design connection, curated by Peaches and Götz Offergeld, to work on a exclusive design for the new Mazda2 special edition. You can see and vote for the designs on Mazda.de

Here is a preview of the latest work of Katia Fouquet for ZEIT Campus. She was commissioned to illustrate the special edition about engineering and did that in a very playful way. Buy the magazine – it’s still on sale – and you will find plenty more illustrations.

Thanks for the nice words! BELLEVUE was featured in the current issue of PAGE, the German magazine about Design, Advertisement and Media including a work of Jan Stöwe from his wonderful blog Jagdfenster. The Jagdfenster (“Hunting window”) shows images he hunts down in the dark areas of his imagination and brings them to paper in restless minutes in his studio. Definetely always exciting and surprising to look at!

Bongoût Gallery is happy to present Bellevue, a group exhibition surveying the rich territory of the new republic of Bellevue, an independent artist-run agency that represents contemporary talents in avant-garde illustration. Bellevue was founded in 2010 by artists and illustrators Jakob Hinrichs, Christian Gfeller, Anna Hellsgård & Katia Fouquet.

The works of the 12 artists presented in the exhibition, at home on the very space between fine art and illustration, playfully hijack the conventional definitions of these terms and demonstrate the fluidity of assumed boundaries. Bellevue artists come from many different backgrounds, such as graphic design, painting, graphic art &abstract art, yet they all have in common a striving to expand the field of illustration, stretch the rules, breathe some fresh air and visual excitement onto printed matter and show that illustration can be avant-garde.

Bellevue is part of the Pictoplasma exhibition programme (festival of contemporary character design&art, April 6th-10th). To celebrate the Pictoplasma festival the gallery will be open on Sunday April 10th.